Police car slams pole, Warren officers injured

A Warren police patrol car rests at the city’s DPW yard after it was involved in a crash the night before. Two officers were injured when the vehicle slid on ice while they were en route to a car and crashed into a utility pole. The Macomb Daily/RAY J. SKOWRONEK

The officers were on routine patrol on Toepfer near Hoover Road but accelerated to assist Roseville police in its pursuit of a retail fraud suspect at approximately 9:30 p.m. Sunday, Green said. Teolis and McCabe intended to head to Groesbeck Highway at Eight Mile Road to place “stop sticks” in the road, hoping to deflate the tires of the suspect’s vehicle.

Their patrol car hit a patch of black ice, skidded off the road and struck the large utility pole just a few yards from a cement wall in the industrial area, police said.

Traffic in the industrial area was light at the time of the crash. No other vehicles were involved in the collision, police said.